On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:42:20PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:06:18 +0200
> Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > The GNU toolchain is not supported by Gentoo, and in fact gets
> > actively broken with unsupported command-line options. Only the GNU
> > toolchain as modified by Gentoo's toolchain guys is supported,
> > unfortunately.
> 
> What exactly is it about the toolchain supplied with Gentoo that causes
> you problems?

I don't have a lot of trust in Gentoo's patches, as they have resulted
in completely and utterly unusable ld, and (minor) data loss due to a
miscompilation by Gentoo's gcc, in the past. Also, being able to check
whether your own software compiles with a GNU toolchain is to me a good
thing.
-- 
gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Reply via email to